Guess and Adjust allows students to build background knowledge as they prepare to read a new work. It also lets them use word parts to predict meaning and figure out words using context.
I would give students a graphic organizer to fill out. (As an example, we could start with "unfathomable," a word from the first chapter of The Outsiders.)
Here's a template from Jeff Zwiers' Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12, published by the International Reading Association. Copying for classroom use is permitted:
Vocabulary Strategies
Guess and Adjust
Guess and Adjust allows students to build background knowledge as they prepare to read a new work. It also lets them use word parts to predict meaning and figure out words using context.I would give students a graphic organizer to fill out. (As an example, we could start with "unfathomable," a word from the first chapter of The Outsiders.)
Here's a template from Jeff Zwiers' Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12, published by the International Reading Association. Copying for classroom use is permitted: